Advocates urge state government to scrap approval system and adopt charter of human rights similar to Victoria and Queensland

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Protest organisers in New South Wales would be much less likely to end up fighting police in court for permission to hold rallies if the state had a charter of human rights instead of its “undemocratic” approvals system, a legal expert says.

The organisers of Sydney’s weekly pro-Palestine rallies were in the supreme court on Thursday fighting NSW police’s attempt to stop them from holding a protest on Sunday and a vigil on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the Israel-Gaza war.

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